APEX Hospice and Palliative CareAPEX Hospice and Palliative Care

Mission Statement

Our mission is to ease suffering, while maintaining patient's dignity, by providing our compassionate care and comfort to individuals and families living with terminal illness. We focus on patient autonomy and promote individualized quality of care f... Read more

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Mission Statement

Our mission is to ease suffering, while maintaining patient's dignity, by providing our compassionate care and comfort to individuals and families living with terminal illness. We focus on patient autonomy and promote individualized quality of care for mind, body and spirit. APEX Hospice and Palliative Care maintains the highest ethical and moral standards, exhibits the utmost professionalism, compassion and concern towards patients, families and fellow employees, and believes in providing top of the line medical, personal and spiritual support.

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APEX Hospice and Palliative Care seeks to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of patients and families who are facing a terminal illness. We focus on quality of life by providing comfort, company and active treatment of distressing symptoms, with the patient and their family as the focus of care. Services are provided by a team of professionals and volunteers who are physician directed and nurse coordinated. Comfort and coping resources are provided to the family for up to 13 months following the death of their loved one. "Family" is patient defined, and may include friends, significant others, life partners and relatives by blood or marriage. It is the expectation of APEX Hospice and Palliative Care that all employees and volunteers are strongly committed to the dignity and worth of each individual human being. Integrity and responsibility are expected conduct in all contacts with patients, families, other service providers, coworkers and the public.